The feasibility of water intake before endoscopy for clearance of food residue in postgastrectomy patients
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Neoplasms
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 300
Inclusion Criteria
1. Selection Criteria
(1) Patients who underwent distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer at St. Vincent’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea
(2) Age: 19-80 years old
(3) Patients who can eat an oral diet after surgery
(4) Patients who signed the consent form after reading and understanding it
Exclusion Criteria
2. Exclusion Criteria
(1) Uncontrolled diabetes (HbA1c = 9.0%)
(2) Concomitant autoimmune diseases (SLE, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, type 1 diabetes)
(3) Those with cancer other than gastric cancer
(4) Patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy after gastric cancer surgery
(5) Patients undergoing hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis due to end-stage renal disease
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Difference in the frequency of residual food in the stomach between the test group that took 1L of water the day before gastroscopy in patients who underwent distal resection for gastric cancer and the control group that did not take water
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Among patients who underwent distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer, there is a difference in the determination of residual stomach when water is taken and gastroscopy is performed as a new gastroscopy preparation method for patients for whom food residue was found in the residual stomach during the previous gastroscopy.